Health Education: Volume 104 Issue 3

What impact is information technology having on our young people's health and well‐being?

Katherine Weare

The impact of information technology (IT) on the emotional and social health of young people has had very little research, yet it is obvious that IT is playing an increasingly…

How solution focused support helps women through work‐home conflict

Jim McKenna, Wendy Mackey Jones

While work‐home conflict has well‐established negative outcomes, few studies explore how this might be resolved. This study explored the delivery and outcomes of a three‐session…

Prostate cancer: men's health and their prostate

Lesley Wilkes, Jane Cioffi, Sarah Ho

This study aimed to describe men's knowledge of prostate cancer and the factors associated with these knowledge levels at selected regions in Western Sydney. The study was a…

Cultural clashes in reproductive health information in schools

Nolwazi Mbananga

This paper reports on an empirical study that investigated the content of and perceptions about reproductive health information among school teachers and learners in a rural area…

Student participation – simulation or reality? A vignette from the Macedonian network of health promoting schools

Venka Simovska

This paper addresses the concept of student participation in learning processes within the health promoting schools approach. A model is used as a broad analytical framework to…

Using participatory rapid appraisal as a tool to assess women's psychosocial health needs in Northern Ireland

Ann Lazenbatt, Frances McMurray

Gender inequalities in income and wealth make women particularly vulnerable to poverty. Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA) is a research process, which enables practitioners to…